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Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

E. F. Benson

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Junge Gentlemen mit literarischen Bestrebungen starten gewöhnlich eine neue Universitätszeitschrift, die aus Witz und Schärfe alle diese früheren Bemühungen verdunkeln soll, und ich machte bei diesem Volksgambit keine Ausnahme.

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